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Geneva – Israeli President Shimon Peres expressed hope Monday that popular revolutions in the Middle East could improve relations between his country and its Arab neighbors, if they end up becoming more democratic and prosperous.

Changes in government would need to be accompanied by greater economic freedom and development, he said, as poverty and oppression in the region had fed resentment against Israel.

“We hope the better our neighbors will have it, we shall have better neighbors,” Peres told reporters in Geneva after a meeting with Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey.

Israel was watching protests in Syria particularly closely. “Clearly this changes the status quo in Syria,” he said, without elaborating.

A weeklong series of anti-government demonstrations has rocked Syria, considered one of Israel’s biggest enemies in the region.

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Press TV talks with Jeff Gates, attorney and author of Guilt by Association in Phoenix, about the total unraveling of US foreign policy as a result of its perceived commitment to the aggressions of Israel in the Middle East.

Press TV: President Saleh of Yemen has warned of a civil war. Some observers say this remark is addressed to the West with Saleh saying that his departure would result in a failed state. What is your take on this?

Gates: I am suspicious and it’s hard to be supportive of an autocratic regime so you want to support forces that are trying to remove those off the stage. At the same time you recall the British Minister, Lord Cromer used to say, “We do not govern Egypt we govern the governors of Egypt”. So I wonder who really is behind this; who will emerge in the background.

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According to a retired CIA analyst, new evidence has emerged revealing the full extent to which Israel was involved in the direct planning of America’s aggressive war on Iraq that was initiated by President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

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Perhaps Chabad Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who recently hosted a private dinner for Bahrain’s Jewish Ambassador to the United States, has the answer:

“There are those, unfortunately too few as yet in the region, who say there is virtue to the Jewish people and if we discover it and explore it we may find the need for conflict is not really there,” Shemtov said.

“His excellency King Hamad and his excellency Shaikh Khalid are such people.”

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In comparing the “humanitarian” intervententions in Kosovo and Libya, Helena Cobban asks some very pertinent questions:

Now, it is extremely unclear what the political upshot of all this will be in Libya. In Kosovo, Washington ended up midwifing a tiny, landlocked little statelet that is a hub of organized crime at the heart of the Balkans, and whose people have a very stunted quality of life.

How will Libya look, 12 years hence? Will it be one state, or two, or three? Will its people still be locked in an unresolved and very damaging civil war or a situation of longterm political conflict?

In preparing the public for the intervention in Kosovo, Cobban reminds us, Clinton’s Secretary of Defense William Cohen’s “alarmism turned out to be a great exaggeration.” Within two years of leaving “public service,” Cohen had become a multi-millionaire as chairman and CEO of The Cohen Group, which represents major defense contractors. The Cohen Group’s former vice-chairman, Marc Grossman, was a key member of an Israeli-led espionage network which included Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, according to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds.